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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. H2

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Drill vs. H2

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.orgwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Apache Software FoundationThomas Mueller
Initial release20142019201220122005
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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